Another update...

Took my parts to another machine shop and unfortunately they sat there for 3 weeks with no work done so I picked them up.

Here are the pictures of the cam bearings. Wasted! Looks like the machine shop never clearanced the bearings correctly like they said they did.

In addition here is a picture of the rod with the failed bearing. Note that the rod cap does not have this heat discoloration like the rod itself does. I plan to measure the big end of the rod myself or possibly take the rod to another machine shop for their inspection and measurement.

However, my question is the following.

Just because there is discoloration does that mean that the rod must be reconditioned???

If the big end of the rod measures to spec, no out of round, taper etc. Can it be reused without reconditioning?


I also found that every rod bearing had a piece of the bearing itself broken off. I assume this is due to improper assembly...???